While working on the JoshuaLozoff.com site, he wanted to have a popup Mailchimp form. There are other ways to do it, like a Gravity Forms form that syncs to Mailchimp, but using the Subscriber Pop-Up form within Mailchimp allowed him to design and maintain the form himself. However, it doesn’t work on a click-basis (at […]

The video will take you through the process I use to detect if there’s an issue and what steps I take to clean the server. Once you’ve determined there’s an issue, let’s start by collecting IPs from the access logs. nano /var/log/nginx/access.log Some things to look for: POST actions /wp-login.php (easier to determine with sites […]

I came across a scenario where I wanted to highlight a whole row if one cell in that row had a value. It’s quite easy once you know how. Here’s how I did it. This example is in Google Sheets, but Excel should work the same way. Open Conditional Formatting under Format > Conditional Formatting […]

A situation came up a franchise site that is a WordPress multisite installation, where we wanted to dynamically populate the signup location property for segmentation, set with the website URL. Following these instructions doesn’t work for this situation, though it is close. https://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/signup-forms/determine-webpage-signup-location. We also can’t do something like this (it didn’t seem to work): […]

I’ve got a 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix GXP and I was having intermittent air conditioning issues. It’s been 90, 100 in temperature, let alone the heat index. That’s pretty hot to be riding around without AC! Two years ago I had the AC compressor replaced, so I wasn’t expecting that to be dead again. Especially […]

I moved to Raleigh, NC just over 10 years ago. I travel home to Rochester, NY about 3 times a year to see family and friends, get away on a cheap vacation, and to dog and house sit while my mom goes on vacation. When I’m here to dog and house sit, I always have […]

I host many websites (most of them WordPress) and I have a plugin I add for my clients in /mu-plugins/. It’s just some standard settings I want across all sites, including a menu item in the admin, like WPEngine, where my clients can click and read about NevTec Hosting, request help, etc. I have a […]

Author Bio Wendy Dessler Title: Super-Connector at OutreachMamaWendy is a super-connector with OutreachMama and Youth Noise NJ who helps businesses find their audience online through outreach, partnerships, and networking. She frequently writes about the latest advancements in digital marketing and focuses her efforts on developing customized blogger outreach plans depending on the industry and competition. […]

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Expert at knowing a little bit about everything - or so I like to think. Husband, business owner, web developer, car enthusiast, animal lover, tinkerer. I run a web development/technology company, NevisTechnology.com where I'm living my dream. Need hosting services, a website, blog, Blogger to WordPress conversion or an e-commerce store?Let's talk!